I first went on the internet in the college library in late 1996. It was slow as fuck and there was bog all on it, but damn it was exciting.
I remember I bought a magazine called XNET, which was a standard lads mag type thing in the style of Loaded or Zoo (it was the 90's, I was horny. Don't judge) but it had a CD on the cover with offline versions of a load of websites! It was glorious.
This was when all web addresses were like
http://www.geocities.com/earthnet/U7650 ... index.html and you jolly well had to type them
And my first email address was <myfirstname>.<mysurname>@hotmail.com before microsoft bought them.